diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
index 8ec8874f51e4..f4054613cdc6 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/default.nix
@@ -74,8 +74,9 @@ let
   buildType = "release";
   # Use maintainers/scripts/update.nix to update the version and all related hashes or
   # change the hashes in extpack.nix and guest-additions/default.nix as well manually.
-  virtualboxVersion = "7.1.4";
-  virtualboxSha256 = "872e7a42b41f8558abbf887f1bdc7aac932bb88b2764d07cbce270cab57e3b5e";
+  virtualboxVersion = "7.1.6";
+  virtualboxSubVersion = "a";
+  virtualboxSha256 = "5a7b13066ec71990af0cc00a5eea9c7ec3c71ca5ed99bb549c85494ce2ea395d";
 
   kvmPatchVersion = "20241220";
   kvmPatchHash = "sha256-SYyD79iN6Sp/Mxat+ml3fee9X1vFUFyrwHPnQNboc1c=";
@@ -84,7 +85,9 @@ let
   # modsrc at all.
   withModsrc = !enableKvm;
 
-  virtualboxGuestAdditionsIso = callPackage guest-additions-iso/default.nix { };
+  virtualboxGuestAdditionsIso = callPackage guest-additions-iso/default.nix {
+    inherit virtualboxVersion;
+  };
 
   inherit (lib)
     optional
@@ -104,11 +107,12 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "virtualbox";
-  version = finalAttrs.virtualboxVersion;
+  version = "${finalAttrs.virtualboxVersion}${finalAttrs.virtualboxSubVersion}";
 
   inherit
     buildType
     virtualboxVersion
+    virtualboxSubVersion
     virtualboxSha256
     kvmPatchVersion
     kvmPatchHash
@@ -116,7 +120,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     ;
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${finalAttrs.virtualboxVersion}/VirtualBox-${finalAttrs.virtualboxVersion}.tar.bz2";
+    url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${finalAttrs.virtualboxVersion}/VirtualBox-${finalAttrs.virtualboxVersion}${finalAttrs.virtualboxSubVersion}.tar.bz2";
     sha256 = finalAttrs.virtualboxSha256;
   };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
index 134ce6424ce5..7b9eb812064f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/extpack.nix
@@ -4,17 +4,17 @@
   virtualbox,
 }:
 let
-  inherit (virtualbox) version;
+  virtualboxExtPackVersion = "7.1.6";
 in
 fetchurl rec {
-  name = "Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${version}.vbox-extpack";
-  url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${version}/${name}";
+  name = "Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${virtualboxExtPackVersion}.vbox-extpack";
+  url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${virtualboxExtPackVersion}/${name}";
   sha256 =
     # Manually sha256sum the extensionPack file, must be hex!
     # Thus do not use `nix-prefetch-url` but instead plain old `sha256sum`.
     # Checksums can also be found at https://www.virtualbox.org/download/hashes/${version}/SHA256SUMS
     let
-      value = "9dd60ef3c52c2a318fbbb6faace5862a299b61f678a579988869865dcf7390b6";
+      value = "c13e47d3fb2c849019accb03353c7d04ffb9c264920075972ed2e2befe3cdd8b";
     in
     assert (builtins.stringLength value) == 64;
     value;
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix
index 70e68879264d..61e577ebd95f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 {
   fetchurl,
   lib,
-  virtualbox,
+  virtualboxVersion,
 }:
-
-let
-  inherit (virtualbox) version;
-in
 fetchurl {
-  url = "http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${version}/VBoxGuestAdditions_${version}.iso";
-  sha256 = "80c91d35742f68217cf47b13e5b50d53f54c22c485bacce41ad7fdc321649e61";
+  url = "http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${virtualboxVersion}/VBoxGuestAdditions_${virtualboxVersion}.iso";
+  sha256 = "dbbda1645bc05c9260adfe9efc4949cb590ec5ec02680aff936375670cffcafc";
   meta = {
     description = "Guest additions ISO for VirtualBox";
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix
index 7219f0f8c58b..9cb17616805d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix
@@ -20,19 +20,23 @@
   makeself,
   linuxHeaders,
   openssl,
+  virtualboxVersion,
+  virtualboxSubVersion,
+  virtualboxSha256,
 }:
 
 let
   buildType = "release";
-
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "VirtualBox-GuestAdditions-builder-${kernel.version}";
-  version = "7.1.4";
+  version = "${virtualboxVersion}${virtualboxSubVersion}";
+
+  inherit virtualboxVersion virtualboxSubVersion;
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${finalAttrs.version}/VirtualBox-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "872e7a42b41f8558abbf887f1bdc7aac932bb88b2764d07cbce270cab57e3b5e";
+    url = "https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${finalAttrs.virtualboxVersion}/VirtualBox-${finalAttrs.virtualboxVersion}${finalAttrs.virtualboxSubVersion}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = virtualboxSha256;
   };
 
   env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = "-Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -Wno-error=implicit-function-declaration";
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix
index 547b6ac55172..2d8365fa3006 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@
   libX11,
 }:
 let
-  virtualBoxNixGuestAdditionsBuilder = callPackage ./builder.nix { };
+  virtualboxVersion = "7.1.6";
+  virtualboxSubVersion = "a";
+  virtualboxSha256 = "5a7b13066ec71990af0cc00a5eea9c7ec3c71ca5ed99bb549c85494ce2ea395d";
+
+  virtualBoxNixGuestAdditionsBuilder = callPackage ./builder.nix {
+    inherit virtualboxVersion virtualboxSubVersion virtualboxSha256;
+  };
 
   # Specifies how to patch binaries to make sure that libraries loaded using
   # dlopen are found. We grep binaries for specific library names and patch
@@ -46,7 +52,7 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   pname = "VirtualBox-GuestAdditions";
-  version = "${virtualBoxNixGuestAdditionsBuilder.version}-${kernel.version}";
+  version = "${virtualboxVersion}${virtualboxSubVersion}-${kernel.version}";
 
   src = "${virtualBoxNixGuestAdditionsBuilder}/VBoxGuestAdditions-${
     if stdenv.hostPlatform.is32bit then "x86" else "amd64"
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     runHook preBuild
 
     # Build kernel modules.
-    cd src/vboxguest-${virtualBoxNixGuestAdditionsBuilder.version}_NixOS
+    cd src/vboxguest-${virtualboxVersion}_NixOS
     # Run just make first. If we only did make install, we get symbol warnings during build.
     make
     cd ../..
@@ -102,7 +108,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     mkdir -p $out/bin
 
     # Install kernel modules.
-    cd src/vboxguest-${virtualBoxNixGuestAdditionsBuilder.version}_NixOS
+    cd src/vboxguest-${virtualboxVersion}_NixOS
     make install INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$out KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS=$PWD/vboxsf/Module.symvers
     cd ../..
 
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/update.sh b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/update.sh
index 5c811bea4882..51600df4ce5b 100755
--- a/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/update.sh
+++ b/pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/update.sh
@@ -29,19 +29,23 @@ if [ ! "$oldVersion" = "$latestVersion" ]; then
   virtualboxNixFile=$(nixFile ${attr})
   extpackNixFile=$(nixFile ${attr}Extpack)
   guestAdditionsIsoNixFile="pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions-iso/default.nix"
-  virtualboxGuestAdditionsNixFile="pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/builder.nix"
+  virtualboxGuestAdditionsNixFile="pkgs/applications/virtualization/virtualbox/guest-additions/default.nix"
 
   virtualBoxOldShaSum=$(oldHash ${attr}Extpack)
   extpackOldShaSum=$(oldHash ${attr}Extpack)
 
-  sed -e "s/virtualboxVersion =.*;/virtualboxVersion = \"$latestVersion\";/g" \
-      -e "s/virtualboxSha256 =.*;/virtualboxSha256 = \"$virtualBoxShaSum\";/g" \
+  sed -e "s/virtualboxVersion = \".*\";/virtualboxVersion = \"$latestVersion\";/g" \
+      -e "s/virtualboxSubVersion = \".*\";/virtualboxSubVersion = \"\";/g" \
+      -e "s/virtualboxSha256 = \".*\";/virtualboxSha256 = \"$virtualBoxShaSum\";/g" \
       -i "$virtualboxNixFile"
-  sed -i -e 's|value = "'$extpackOldShaSum'"|value = "'$extpackShaSum'"|' $extpackNixFile
-  sed -e "s/sha256 =.*;/sha256 = \"$guestAdditionsIsoShaSum\";/g" \
+  sed -e 's|value = "'$extpackOldShaSum'"|value = "'$extpackShaSum'"|' \
+      -e "s/virtualboxExtPackVersion = \".*\";/virtualboxExtPackVersion = \"$latestVersion\";/g" \
+      -i $extpackNixFile
+  sed -e "s/sha256 = \".*\";/sha256 = \"$guestAdditionsIsoShaSum\";/g" \
       -i "$guestAdditionsIsoNixFile"
-  sed -e "s/version =.*;/version = \"$latestVersion\";/g" \
-      -e "s/sha256 =.*;/sha256 = \"$virtualBoxShaSum\";/g" \
+  sed -e "s/virtualboxVersion = \".*\";/virtualboxVersion = \"$latestVersion\";/g" \
+      -e "s/virtualboxSubVersion = \".*\";/virtualboxSubVersion = \"\";/g" \
+      -e "s/virtualboxSha256 = \".*\";/virtualboxSha256 = \"$virtualBoxShaSum\";/g" \
       -i "$virtualboxGuestAdditionsNixFile"
 
   git add "$virtualboxNixFile" "$extpackNixFile" "$guestAdditionsIsoNixFile" "$virtualboxGuestAdditionsNixFile"